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- From: andrew@cubetech.com (Andrew Loewenstern)
- Subject: Re: 100 Mips Intel NeXT.
- Message-ID: <1992Dec13.113539.25552@cubetech.com>
- Organization: Cube Technologies, Inc.
- References: <1992Dec8.205422.746@qb.rhein-main.de> <1992Dec10.090411.12142@ichips.intel.com> <mike.724093217@starburst.umd.edu>
- Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 11:35:39 GMT
- Lines: 42
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- In article <mike.724093217@starburst.umd.edu> mike@starburst.umd.edu (Michael F. Santangelo) writes:
- >If anything I think (my own $0.02(US)) that NeXT would only gain respect
- >for using HP-PA. It's a very respected company with a very much respected
- >RISC architecture that is [not] closed. Common misconception.
-
- PA is really killer, but Pentium already has better name recognition
- than PA, and it's not even out yet! Sure, unix weenies like you and I
- know about PA, but most of the people NeXT is trying to sell computers
- to don't.
-
- >Most anyone can port to the backward compatible Intel 808x processor family...
- >(UNIX requiring an 80386 or better). Not alot of pride in it. Only thing
- >NeXT gains in going completely to the Intel family is reduced development
- >costs by not needing to support more than one architecture.
-
- If NeXT produced a Pentium based machine, it would be a wildly
- different beast from, say, a Dell Pentium PC. The Sun 386i, most of
- the Sequents (I think), and Scitex boxes all run on 80386s or 80486s,
- but none of them will run either DOS or eachother's operating systems.
- Same deal with old HP-Apollo's, Amiga's, Macintoshes, and NeXT's.
- There's a lot more to a machine than it's processor. So NeXT would
- still have to support another architecture (in the form of different
- device-drivers and other machine dependant code).
-
-
- Steve Jobs doesn't think people should care about what processor is in
- the box. He's absolutely right, and I agree with him. So he doesn't
- think that, technological issues aside, NeXT needs use a processor for
- marketing reasons. Unfortunately, on the planet the rest of us live
- on, people really do seem to care about what processor is in the box,
- even if it's for all the wrong reasons...
-
- perhaps that's one of the reasons why NS486 is going to be a smashing
- sucess compared to NeXTstations.
-
-
- andrew
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